President Barack Obama kicked off a new push to spotlight the benefits of his signature health care overhaul Tuesday, vowing to keep fighting for the law amid a barrage of criticism over its troubled rollout.

“We’re not going back,” Obama said, flanked by people who the White House said are benefiting from the Affordable Care Act. Obama urged Americans to “refocus on what’s at stake.”

Obama’s brief speech near the White House marked the start of a three-week education campaign ahead of the Dec. 23 deadline for individuals to sign up for insurance coverage beginning Jan. 1. Each day Obama, his political lieutenants and their Democratic allies will tout a different element of the law in an effort to shore up political support.

The public relations push is a bid to move beyond the lacerating criticism of Healthcare.gov, the problem-plagued website the administration had marketed as an easy way to enroll in the law’s insurance exchanges, as well as to call attention to the elements of the law that the administration believes are working. The push, which will include public events and digital outreach, reflects the White House’s belief that individual facets of the law —such as the provision barring insurance companies from denying coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, other consumer protections, and cost controls — remain broadly popular, even as overall support has sagged.

“What’s important for everybody to remember is not only that the law has helped millions of people,” Obama said, “but also that there are millions more that stand to be helped.”

While Obama stopped short of proclaiming the site’s problems were fixed, the White House says it has met a self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to resolve most of the bugs that plagued its unveiling. “The website was functioning poorly in October, but it is functioning much better now,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.

“Do not let the initial problems with the website discourage you,” Obama implored, arguing that enrolling in coverage “will make all the difference” in the event that people or their families become sick.

The effort to tout the law’s merits is far from the first, and it is unlikely to douse the fiery opposition from political opponents.

Critics of the law reject the administration’s argument that Obamacare’s problems can be patched up. Congressional Republicans, who have tried dozens of times to repeal the law, plan to make it a key issue in next year’s midterm elections. “President Obama and House Democrats are attempting to do in 3 weeks what they couldn’t do in 3 years: convince voters that Obamacare isn’t a massive failure,” said Matt Gorman, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Over the coming months, federal courts will hear a wave of legal challenges to controversial provisions, including a Supreme Court case next year that focuses on whether the law violates the constitutional right to religious liberty by forcing corporations to provide contraceptive coverage as part of their insurance plans.

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ACA is here to stay,period.It help millions of people that needs it most.repubs have done nothing but to repeal our CARE...while behind closed doors they were free loaders of the government funded hcare paid for by you and me..take for example the quitter loon from Wasilla....She and her family have been recipients of the government funded hcare in Alaska,while attacking the hcare...We will hammer republicans once again this mid-term,for shutting down the government,spending $24B in 16 days,and wanting to repeal our health care...There will never be a republican POTUS in the White House,courtesy of demography...Republican party is an evil greedy&selfish party..

"Recent polling shows that an election wave of anti-ObamaCare sentiment is growing, and it is not only likely to hand the GOP control of the United States Senate, but might wipe out as many as 12 Democrat seats–many of which looked safe just a few months ago. . . ."

Delusional?“What’s important for everybody to remember is not only that the law has helped millions of people,” Obama said, “but also that there are millions more that stand to be helped.” Millions helped? Seriously? It just goes to show you can say anything in a 'speech' and get away with is.

The GOP in a nutshell: "An astute friend remarked to me on Tuesday that the GOP’s position on Obamacare is coming to resemble its position on abortion in one key way: loudly, consistently, uniformly opposed, but ultimately not really driven to eliminate it. The backlash they’d face would be brutal, but they might stand to gain by fighting it on the margins and keeping the issue alive." (Sullivan)

I'm not buying this astute friend of his. Abortion is only a winning issue for Republicans with their base; overall, it's a loser just as fighting against universal health care is a loser in the long term. But since when have Republicans ever thought about the long-term? Their goal is a mid-term win.

@paulejb I'd like to change the health care law myself Paule...maybe the Public Option the Republicans shot down despite a 65% support rate form the American people. Should we go with that...or the Republican alternative...which is what again?

@paulejbWhite House says some of the problems came from Human Error. Why must Wingers blow everything out of proportion?

Some of the errors in the past forms were generated by the way people
were using the system, another senior official on the project said, such
as clicking twice on the confirmation button or moving backward and
forward on the site.